1st Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium

Website: http://anzmh.asn.au/rmha9/

Date posted: 13.09.09

Invitation to the 1st Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium.

The recent incidents of natural disaster in Victoria (bushfires) and Queensland (floods, cyclones, oil spills) have left a trail of death and destruction, shattered communities, and displaced people. Such events severely impact on the Mental Health of individual survivors, and impact on community functioning.

What lessons can be learned from our response to these events? How can Mental Health professionals prepare themselves more effectively to deal with such events in rural and remote communities? How can the resources of Government, mental health professionals, emergency services, and private practitioners be better utilised for optimal benefit?

What long term planning is required to provide ongoing support, treatment and infrastructure?

Can our response to recent disasters provide the roadmap to build capacity in rural and remote areas?

Themes:

• Community Preparedness & Context


• Early Interventions


• Medium Term Interventions


• Long Term Interventions

Stream Topics:

• Emergency Services & Administration


• Mental Health Services Delivery


• Development of Individual and Community Resilience

Invited Speakers Include:

• Prof Peg Le Vine, Professor of Psychosocial Health, Monash Asia Institute confirmed
• A/Prof Sabina Knight, Director, Rural Health Education Foundation, Senior Lecturer at Centre of Remote Health confirmed
• Prof Gavin Andrews, UNSW at St Vincent's Hospital confirmed
• Assoc Professor Dennis Pashen, Mount Isa Centre for Rural and Remote Health
• Prof Beverley Raphael, Professor & Head of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University, Professor of Population Mental Health and Disasters and Director of the Centre for Disasters and Terrorism (DAT) at the University of Western Sydney confirmed
• Dr Helen J. Stain Senior Lecturer, Clinical Psychologist, Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle confirmed
• Professor Don Gorman, Director, Centre for Rural & Remote Area Health, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba confirmed
• Dr Keith Miller, BSc (Adel), BTh(Hons), BSocPlan (Hons), BSW, PhD, Lecturer, Flinders University confirmed
• Dr. Dennis Pashen, President, Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine confirmed

 

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